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EASTERN OUTLOOK BETTER I PROFESSIONAL REFORMERS BELIEVE GITTINS BILLS WILL BE ENACTED INTO LAW. I Measures for Relief of Racing: Take Place on Senate Calendar at Albany for Third Reading — Tentative Plans for Racing. Albany. N. Y.. .Tune 12.— The Gittins hills to amend the directors liability law aud to define i I kmaking have been referred to the committee of I the whole of the Senate and will come SB on the calendar this week for third reading. The pro feaaioaal reformers who were instrumental in the passage of the repressiouary legislation against racing in this state during the past few years now n cognize that their efforts may be negatived and that racing is likely to be re-established on the metropolitan courses. Canon W. B. Chase, one of the foremost of them, is quoted as of the opinion that some strong political power was employed to force the Gittins bills out of committee and he charges that the leaders of both great political parties are lebbying in behalf of the bills. He believes that a definite pledge has been given the race track owners and hotel men of the state that racing will be restored and that hereulean efforts will be made to crush any opposition that may develop to the passage of the relief measures. He adds that the belief is general thai Governor Dix will sign the jit tins bills if they pass. New York. June 12. — Already there is speculation as to the racing schedule that will be adopted in the event of the passage of the Gittins bills. If the bills become law in time to permit such an arrangement there may be a meeting at Belmont lark lor iwelve days ending July 4. After that, according to the plana tentatively arranged. Empire City and Brighton Beach jointly will conduct a meeting at . Yonkers until the hist week in August. Then will I follow the usual session at Saratoga, lasting until September 1. a stretch of at least twenty-four days. The local fall campaign will begin at Sheepshead Bay with the running of the Futurity abort Sep icmlier _. after which Gravesond. Belmont lark and Aqueduct will 0 erate. maybe with fifteen days each. Nothing has been learned as to the prospect lor u meeting at Jamaica, but it is understood that the Metropolitan Jockey Club will line up with the others when the time comes. It is believed that stakes and purses can be made sufficiently large to attract jirominent turfmen now racing elsewhere. If racing is re-established on the moderate basis that the Gittins measures will permit it is predicted that there will be a boom in the breeding industry and that next year will find the sport on a souud business basis, with important turf events such as the Brooklyn. Suburban. Metropolitan and Brighton Handicaps revived on the usual lines.
